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. 1982 Feb;79(3):749–753. doi: 10.1073/pnas.79.3.749

Analysis of histone gene expression during the cell cycle in HeLa cells by using cloned human histone genes.

R Rickles, F Marashi, F Sierra, S Clark, J Wells, J Stein, G Stein
PMCID: PMC345829  PMID: 6461006

Abstract

Although it is generally agreed that histone protein synthesis is restricted to the S phase of the cell cycle--and therefore parallels DNA replication--both transcriptional and posttranscriptional levels of control have been invoked. Using blot hybridization with several cloned genomic human histone sequences representing different histone gene clusters as probes, we have assessed the steady-state level of histone RNAs in the nucleus and cytoplasm of G1 and S phase HeLa S3 cells. The representation of histone mRNA sequences of G1 compared with S phase cells was less than 1% in the cytoplasm and approximately 1% in the nucleus. These data are consistent with transcriptional control, but we cannot completely dismiss the possibility that regulation of histone gene expression is, to some extent, mediated posttranscriptionally. If histone gene transcription does occur in G1, the RNAs must either be rapidly degraded or be transcribed to a limited extent compared with S phase. An unexpected result was obtained when a blot of cytoplasmic RNA from G1 and S phase cells was hybridized with lambda HHG 41 DNA (containing H3 and H4 human genomic histone sequences). Although hybridization with histone mRNAs was observed for RNAs from S phase but not from G1 cells, hybridization with a nonhistone RNA of approximately 330 nucleotides present predominantly in G1 was also observed.

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